Desperate Haven - The Famine In Dungarvan

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Number Of Chapters : 23

1.	The Union And The Workhouse The Poor Law System and construction of Dungarvan Workhouse.

2.	Overture To Disaster, 1845 The dependence on the potato crop and the first appearance of blight.

3.	Action And Reaction The Dungarvan Relief Committee and the Dungarvan food riots.

4.	Despair And Death The story of Black 47, the public works schemes and the worsening situation.

5.	1848 The misery continues, the Young Irelanders and Christmas of 1848.

6.	The Plague Year The Cholera epidemic of 1849.

7.	Shandon Cholera Hospital 1849 Reports from the Shandon Cholera Hospital in 1849.

8.	Workhouse Diet And Its Effects 1845 - 1850 What the paupers ate, the introduction of indian meal, how the Board Of Guardians sourced food and ill-discipline in the workhouse due to the food shortages

9.	Auxiliary Workhouses Auxiliary Workhouses were generally warehouses rented from local merchants. They were introduced to help cope with the overcrowding at the main Workhouse.

10.	The Fever Hospital Abbeyside The story of the Fever Hospital run by the Board Of Guardians at Strandside North, Abbeyside.

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